Oracle Corp and Google Inc have reached an "irreconcilable impasse" in settlement negotiations in a high-profile intellectual property lawsuit and the companies' lawyers should prepare for trial, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled on Monday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal said he would not convene any further settlement conferences in the patent and copyright lawsuit against Google over the Java programming language.

Oracle sued Google in 2010, alleging the Web search leader's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents.

According to a court filing made public last week, Google offered to pay Oracle roughly $2.8 million in damages on the two patents remaining in the case, covering the period through 2011, according to a filing made jointly by the companies.

For future damages, Google proposed paying Oracle 0.5 percent of Android revenue on one patent until it expires this December and 0.015 percent on a second patent until it expires in April 2018.
Oracle rebuffed the offer as too low, the filing said.

In addition to those patent claims, Oracle also seeks hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over copyright infringement allegations against Google. Oracle acquired the Java programming language through its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Grewal wished both sides "good luck" in his Monday order.

"We are referred to as trial courts because, in the end, some cases just need to be tried," Grewal wrote. "This case is a good example of why that is so."

滬江英語快訊：Oracle（甲骨文）起訴谷歌Android侵犯Java知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)的官司于美國(guó)當(dāng)?shù)貢r(shí)間4月16日正式開庭，案件審理過程預(yù)計(jì)將持續(xù)8周。早在2010年，Oracle就對(duì)谷歌Android智能手機(jī)操作系統(tǒng)侵犯其專利和版權(quán)提出了訴訟，Oracle起訴谷歌在Android開發(fā)中“故意，直接并反復(fù)侵犯Oracle的Java相關(guān)知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)”。Java在2010年年初已被Oracle收購。該案中，Oracle認(rèn)為編程語言應(yīng)受版權(quán)保護(hù)，起訴之舉是為了維護(hù)軟件開發(fā)的公平；而谷歌則堅(jiān)稱編程語言只是一個(gè)概念或工具，不應(yīng)受到版權(quán)保護(hù)，而通過編程語言這一媒介創(chuàng)建的軟件才應(yīng)受法律保護(hù)。?Oracle和谷歌對(duì)簿公堂，到底是為了公平還是為了利益？大家都看在眼里。